Cookie’s Biggest Fan: From A Year Ago Today
Posted: December 28, 2011 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, mewsette, my household of felines, photographs, senior cats | Tags: cat photographs, cats cuddling, mewsette and cookie, pet photography, two cats on bed 4 Comments
Mewsette Guards Cookie
Yes, the “big little sister” began her guardianship of Cookie last year and still takes care of her.
Has Mewsette adopted Cookie?
I’ve often noticed Mewsette being near Cookie, sitting, sleeping, bathing, sometimes trying to do a gentle nuzzle or head-butt which is summarily rebuffed by Cookie. However, I’ve lately seen Mousse cuddling with or near Cookie—after she’s fallen asleep, of course!
Perhaps like Giuseppe in the way he adopted Peaches years ago, cuddling, keeping her warm, giving her his youthful energy, Mewsette will finally have her way with Cookie. Cookie couldn’t ask for a nicer understudy in Mewsette, big, strong, quiet and sweet.
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You’re right, Bernadette — there’s always an understudy, even if we don’t recognize him/her right away. Phoenix’s understudy was, as I am just realizing, Magwitch, our 2-year-old Snowshoe Siamese-cross. I always think of it as a passing on of the catnip mouse. Maybe it’s a time-honored ritual within the Tribe of Tiger. Or maybe our cats know how much we humans need the continuity, and they charge a younger feline with looking out for us.
Tammy, I’m sure you’ve seen this plenty of times, and I think with cats who live with us it is a tradition as much being passed down from the elders as being copied by the youngers who want to be part of that long-term love.